Quotes by Bee Wilson - Page 1

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.
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Good Food
Good Food Good Food
Lots
Foods
Lots And Lots
Search
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A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
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Bones
Structure
Exact
Formula
Recipe
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Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.
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Critics
Delicious
Difficulty
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There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them.
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Dividing
People New Never
Tasted
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I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.
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Cookbook
Fixed
Recipes
Superb
Cafe
Judy
Rodgers
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One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.
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Imaginary
Real Life
Strange Things
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The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
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Deficiency
Older People
Protein
People More Young
Benefit
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In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
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Increase
Isolation
Suggesting
Number
Forecast
Households
Million
Worse
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The comeback of true green olives was part of a Spanish food revival in the early 2000s. I credit Sam and Sam Clark of Moro Restaurant in London with making them cool again.
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Comeback
Credit
Green
Revival
Clark
Restaurant
Sam
Spanish
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When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.
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Eating
Exposed
Suspicion
Taboo
Watches
Case
Harbor
Long-Standing
Plate
Steal
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When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.
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Meat
Protein
Stones
Consume
Resulting
Vastly
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If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
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Diets
Eating
Nutrition
Psychology
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All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.
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Diverse
Drinking
Milk
Foods
Regularly
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Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
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Buzz
Gold
Honey
Thrill
Feast
Leaf
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Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
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Bars
Bread
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Protein
Substance
Coconut
Overeat
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The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.
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Humans
Limitation
Presumption
Time Food Your
Time Food Way
Based
Perform
However
Injunction
Mouth
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Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.
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Depth
Greece
Tiny
Benchmark
Examples
Round
Proper
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The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
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Cuisine
Despite
Infinite
Monotonous
Palate
Parent
Deliver
Unlike
Manufacturers
Varied
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Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, build muscle, reduce tiredness and kill our hunger pangs. Maybe if we shake enough protein powder into our daily smoothie, we will actually morph into Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Boost
Hunger
Powder
Protein
Muscle
Fat
Burn
Daily
Gwyneth
Gwyneth Paltrow
Reduce
Shake
Vital
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The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
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Childhood
Danger
Endless
Growing Up
Incapable
Resisting
Salty
Taste
Expect
Frequently
Industrial
Innately
Surrounded
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One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
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Perfume
Smell
Spices
Winter
Yearning
Memory
Partly
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In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
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Yoga
Bliss
Charm
Circumstances
Cooking
Eggs
Evening
Return
Silence
Sunday
Supper
Alibi
Big Fan
Largely
Soldiers
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I like quinoa. I like gingerbread. I feel they should be kept separate. I'm not in favor of this thing of making kind of raw, vegan chocolate cake and saying it's as good as chocolate cake. I mean, just eat cake and be done with it. And then have a separate meal of quinoa.
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Cake
Chocolate
Chocolate Cake
Favor
Meal
Raw
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What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
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Adjustment
Anatomy
Bones
Delicious
Garlic
Multiple
Seasoning
Strikes
Turns
Change Best Good
Double
Lemon
Lime
Recipe
Survive
Swap
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In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.
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Cooking
Decline
Meals
Paradox
Prelude
Home Food Cooking
Actual
Aid
Current
Michael
Fantasies
Identified
Recipe
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One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
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Attention
Civilized
Disguise
Draws
Eating
Forks
Function
Props
Trapped
Act
Animals
Bodily
Fact
Stare
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The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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Coercion
Exposed
Response
Vegetables
Condition
Advised
Food People Way
More People
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The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
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Anatomy
Cake
Faults
Grease
Logical
Progression
Reader
Good Food Great
Writer
Batter
Good Great Food
Essay
Fisher
Loaf
Recipe
View
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Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.
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Legal
Coffee
Comforting
Console
Frequency
Predictability
Sipping
Thrillers
John Grisham
Phase
Pinpoint
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The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
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Iphone
Noodles
Return
Saddest
Solitary
Across
Time Your Keep
App
Bowl
Gaze
Holds
Lime
Reassure
Squeeze
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